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Possible Okta DoS Attack

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Possible Okta DoS Attack

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Detects possible Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against an Okta organization. An adversary may attempt to disrupt an organization’s business operations by performing a DoS attack against its Okta service.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-okta*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

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Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Identity
  • Okta
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Monitoring

Version: 102 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query
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event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:(application.integration.rate_limit_exceeded or
system.org.rate_limit.warning or system.org.rate_limit.violation or
core.concurrency.org.limit.violation)











Threat mapping
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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM














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Version 102 (8.6.0 release)








    

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Version 100 (8.5.0 release)








    

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Version 8 (8.4.0 release)








    

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    event.module:okta and event.dataset:okta.system and
event.action:(application.integration.rate_limit_exceeded or
system.org.rate_limit.warning or system.org.rate_limit.violation or
core.concurrency.org.limit.violation)
    

    

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